i know it's mid-july but man the rogalski hate has gotten beyond ridiculous on here. his job is basically running practice drills and watching tape with goalies, it's really not as serious as you're all making it out to be.
Top goalie coaches make a real difference.
Mitch Korn (66) and Allaire brothers (Benoit, 60, and Francois, 68) are all deservedly legendary and arguably Hall of Fame worthy.
Then there’s Ian Clark (66) in Vancouver, Bob Essensa (59) in Boston, Sean Burke (57) in Vegas, Sudarshan Maharaj (60) in Anaheim.
Those are just the biggest names, I don’t know the new top goalie coaches, but these guys for sure have made discernible differences for teams.
There’s been a lot of growth in both the coaching and management of the NHL as it just recently started to get the attention it deserved.
Directors of Goaltending chose which goalies the teams pursue and, along with the coach, shape how those goalies play.
In his defense, there were times when Rogalski had almost nothing to work with, like in 2021-22. Not in his defense, guys seem to get coached up in Utica and then deteriorate up here.
The goaltending in 2023-24 was bad and a lot is riding on it in 2024-25, not sure I would go in with the coaching staff for goalies.
Nilsson calls himself a Development Coach for the Devils on Instagram, so I guess he’s that. That was Rogalski’s job in St Louis before we hired him here.